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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graph Engine vs. JanusGraph vs. Newts vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graph Engine vs. JanusGraph vs. Newts vs. PouchDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Time Series DBMS based on CassandraJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.graphengine.iojanusgraph.orgopennms.github.io/­newtspouchdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.janusgraph.orggithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MicrosoftLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusOpenNMS GroupApache Software Foundation
Initial release20122010201720142012
Current release0.6.3, February 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation language.NET and CJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshosted.NETLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Clojure
Java
Python
JavaJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesyesnoView functions in JavaScript
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding infobased on CassandraSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Servernono

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